Creative nonfiction Quote by Rachel Dolezal

What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was…

— V. S. Naipaul

Narrative nonfiction was not my forte. I always wanted to let my imagination run free, and the facts sometimes got in the way. At…

— Douglas Florian

If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and…

— Jonathan Franzen

Writing nonfiction has been my most serious education, and for all those years it kept me from even glancing in the direction of despair.

— Marilynne Robinson

My theory for nonfiction is that nobody can be free of some kind of conceptions about whatever story they're writing. But if you can…

— George Saunders

With the historical fictions, I was already doing so much research, and so much of the stories was anchored by historical truth that the…

— Debra Dean

Maybe I have a one-track mind, but the best writers and thinkers are focusing on nonfiction these days; this is the genre where a…

— Lee Gutkind

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to…

— Julius Erving

I feel better off doing what I know how to do. I feel a strong element of fictional style in travel writing anyway. Some…

— John Gimlette

Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I…

— Kate Christensen

The pleasure of nonfiction is that it takes all of that sort of artistic and observational skill, but then there's a more intellectual layer…

— Ted Genoways

I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires…

— Phil Keoghan